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- NASA plans to invest $20 billion over seven years in a lunar base, driven by a Trump-era executive order. This investment, while significant, has a limited positive influence on the US equity market, primarily benefiting aerospace and defense companies involved in the Artemis program. The impact is tempered by the long-term nature of the project and the relatively small scale compared to overall government spending.
Investing.com -- NASA plans to invest $20 billion over the next seven years to develop a base on the surface of the moon as part of its goal to send humans back to the lunar surface and allow them to live there.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman laid out the framework on Tuesday in Washington, DC, at a meeting with partners and contractors involved in the Artemis program, the agency’s moon program, as well as US representatives and international government officials.
NASA’s plan to create a moon base is meant to satisfy an executive order President Donald Trump signed in December, calling on the US to land astronauts back on the moon by 2028 and begin building a permanent lunar outpost by 2030.
The announcement comes roughly a week before NASA aims to launch humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years as part of a mission called Artemis II. The upcoming mission will send a crew of four to slingshot around the moon and will help set the stage for a crewed moon landing in the coming years.
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